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Tucker was born in Plainfield, Indiana, on February 12, 1919, the son of Forrest A. Tucker and his wife, Doris Heringlake. [1] His mother has been described as an alcoholic. [ 3 ] A self-avowed "farm boy", Tucker began his performing career at age 14 at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair , pushing the big wicker tourist chairs by day and singing ...
Forrest Silva "Woody" Tucker (June 23, 1920 – May 29, 2004) was an American career criminal first imprisoned at age 15 who spent the rest of his life in and out of jail. [3] He is best known as an escape artist , having escaped from prison "18 times successfully and 12 times unsuccessfully", by his own reckoning. [ 3 ]
Gunsmoke in Tucson is a 1958 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Thomas Carr and written by Paul Leslie Peil and Robert L. Joseph.The film stars Mark Stevens, Forrest Tucker, Gale Robbins, Vaughn Taylor, John Ward and Kevin Hagen.
The Old Man & the Gun is a 2018 American biographical [a] crime film written and directed by David Lowery, about Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and prison escape artist.The script is loosely based on David Grann's 2003 article in The New Yorker titled "The Old Man and the Gun", which was later collected in Grann's 2010 book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
Rage at Dawn is a 1955 American Technicolor Western film directed by Tim Whelan, and starring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, and J. Carrol Naish.It purports to tell the true story of the Reno Brothers, an outlaw gang which terrorized the American Midwest, particularly Southern Indiana, in the period immediately following the American Civil War.
After he discovers the depths of alcoholism his sister, Lucille, has fallen to after working for mobster Dutch Becker (Tucker), Casey accepts the deal police have offered him. He goes to work undercover to nail Dutch and his gang; if he survives and is successful, Casey will receive immunity from prosecution.
Hoodlum Empire is a 1952 American film noir crime film directed by Joseph Kane starring Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler and John Russell. [1] It was inspired by the Kefauver Committee hearings dealing with organized crime. [2]
For one thing, the cast is small but trim, including such hearties as Bruce Bennett, Forrest Tucker and that hardiest of hearties, Barton MacLane. Add two personable young newcomers from Broadway, Tom Tryon and Elaine Stritch , whose brief portrait of a saloon hostess all but salvages the film.